Miscellaneous

Brews You Can Use: Bites I drank a lot of mojito last Saturday evening. It gave me a pretty bad hangover, considering that I stopped drinking early and pounded about fifty ounces of water afterwards. I don't know if it was the rum or other factors at play.

> What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us

Skittles or immigrants? I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Was the analogy flawed? Of course: all analogies are, by their nature, flawed, or else they wouldn't be analogies. Was the analogy "disgusting" or inhuman, as Democrats and liberal Catholics [https://twitter.com/

I have to spend one day every year, working at my service club's food booth at the county fair. Every year, I find the chore exhausting, and I don't know why. It's not hard work, the people are nice, and it's a

Miscellaneous Rambling Okay, I'm now "all in" with Trump: Donald Trump just unveiled a huge tax break for stay-at-home moms [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/game-changer-donald-trump-just-unveiled-a-huge-tax-break-for-stay-at-home-m?utm_source=LifePetitions+petition+signers&utm_campaign=bae5c98dff-Petitions_List_Family_9_159_15_2016&utm_medium=email&

> The story behind the most popular post card of all time. https://t.co/5fyqm9JTtA ”¦ pic.twitter.com/uCjLQIzbuG [https://t.co/uCjLQIzbuG] > — Bob Toomey (@bob_toomey) September 18, 2016 [https://twitter.com/bob_toomey/status/777592540405047297]

I have his two exorcism books from Ignatius Press, but I've never been able to get into them: > Rome's exorcist, Father Gabriel Amorth, dies at age 91 -via @cnalive [https://twitter.com/cnalive] https://t.co/u5Yb1Psk4K > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) September 18, 2016

> One of the strangest delusions of the Western mind is to the effect that a philosophy of profound wisdom is on tap in the East // @laotzunit [https://twitter.com/LaoTzunit] > — HL Mencken (@HLMenckenBot) September 16, 2016 [https://twitter.com/HLMenckenBot/status/776692122564988929]

BYCU I've never had a zombie, much tried to mix one myself. It looks like a remarkably-complicated drink. You can find its history and the two alleged originals recipes here [http://drinkwire.liquor.com/post/rise-of-the-zombie-cocktail_1376529006?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=sf#gs.F4LVCVw] . Excerpt: >

One of the funniest five minutes of late night ever. PG-13.